Ory Okolloh Quotes

As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.

Ory Okolloh

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DailyOpportunityIndependenceYoung

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

John Carmack

FocusYouMatterThingsGoing

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

LifeSupportPeopleThinkWatches

I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

MyselfCookingYourselfPeopleThink

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

FutureMusicExperienceYourselfYou

I had such a good time working with Paul Feig on 'Spy.'

Jason Statham

GoodTimeSpyGood TimeWorkingHad

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

Chris Hardwick

TimeI AmAvailableAnyAmAnyone

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

Bono

WorldComplicatedGetReligiousToo

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

PassionManPeopleDownVillage

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

Aubrie Sellers

FamilyMyselfTexasBornCitizen

I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.

Peter A. Levine

WisdomHeartSimpleManI AmLegacy

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

Tim Vine

NightYouGoHuntingFoxSee

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

Richard Dawkins

FaithEnlightenmentNiceRunRisk

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